Here is the scoop guys. I have been burned by people with good intentions so many times. After having been in business since 1994 I bought our first dyno in 2000. Before purchasing my first dyno I had all these people promise to come and see us and spin their car up for numbers. Quite honestly this was my business inexperience and I banked on it and had less than 10% of these people show up and it put us into quite a tail spin. We made it work and the reputation of Lightspeed started to grow. A few years back I bought the only AWD dyno in Alberta at that time but this time I budgeted on not selling even one hour of dyno time but looked at what it would do for our own R&D program. However many people promised and well very few of those promises came to pass. Last year the Genesis crowd wanted to tune their cars so we stepped out and bought software and to date I have not used it. So you can see my apprehension of investing in another tuning program or anything for that matter for us. We also upon request bought the Cobb software for this crowd and well it didn't get paid for either.
The problem is expectations the scene wants a good tuner a good facility and well cheap. I am not going to lie to anyone and say we have tuned 100 Nissans cause we have not. I will say this it is much easier to tweak a factory computer to work properly than a standalone and we have set up many standalone cars 450+ cars. I also have over 15000 hours of dyno time and have worked on everything from Exotics to record setting cars. I also fly out and tune several cars a year. I believe Lightspeed is a good fit for the Nissan scene. I would like to work with the local guys. Yes it is a business and we have invested quite heavily we just want the local support. That is why I offerred a tune package for the NA cars of $750.00 which breaks down to a $300.00 license and $450.00 for your tune. Normally we charge $700-$850(depends on time) for a tune such as this plus license fees I am flat rating this as a way to say Lightspeed wants to be involved We have done this deal with several other groups who wanted software and it worked out well for them and us. I am asking for a deposit of $500.00 (do you honestly think we would process it until we had all the interested parties and we could promise delivery ). I am typically booked 2-3 months in advance starting about mid April but on a deal like this I have no problem working everybody in sooner as well as long as we get the process started sooner than later. I want 6 guys to say yes I will do it I have 2 right now. Rest assured if it didn't happen I would not process any payments I am not going to trash 16 years of reputation or a few hundred dollars. It is a large investment for us and well not worth it if only one or two people are interested to do it even at 6 it is still a large investment. My hope is that the 6 will be only too happy to tell of their positive experience. I think our positive Nissan work in the past shows our commitment to our clients.
Cheers Cam
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